daddy's day

Forgive me for producing a post so late, because father's day was indeed yesterday, and I am a full 13 hours behind schedule, but ... better late than never ... so here I am, with a brand new post, and a brand new thought.

Incidentally, father's day is on the 21st of June, which also happens to be the day of the Summer Solstice, which is the longest day of the calender year. But again, there is absolutely no connection between a father and the solstices, unless you happen to be Karna, who was the son of the Sun ... whew ... that pun was inevitable!!! But otherwise there is little connection between the two. Coming back to my father, well, you already know quite a lot about him from my previous posts or so ... if you are still thirsty for knowledge feel free to visit his personal web presence:

http://www.yantrajaal.com

But what I want to share with you all is something different. After 18 years of being a "footnote" in the great Indian Software Story, my father is presently a professors at the Praxis Business School, and an adjunct faculty at the Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur, and as a result has more time at hand that what he had a couple of years or so back. Because then he, being a Director of IBM India, had a bigger role to play for the company, than he had for himself. So now, with relatively ampler time at his disposal, he has done what he wanted to do for so long ... which is writing books. He published a compendium of his diverse, yet inter connected thoughts (which searched for links between Hinduism, Mathematics, and Genetics) in 'The Road to Psingularity' (published by the print-on-demand service offered by lulu.com) which you can check out here.

his second work is more significant and more recent, a book, or rather a text-book with a twist.

It's entitled 'Business Information Systems' and aims at providing the required course material for Management Information Systems students at all B-schools. The twist however is the nature of writing in it, which captures the essence of a dialogue based interaction between a teacher and a student. Published by Jaico publishers all across India on the 29th of may 2009, it is quite easily the most ground breaking ever written by an Indian.(I'm not joking)

In fact, here's an awesome representation of the book. Flip through the pages, or read the full work by clicking on the full screen button.

so if you are a management student, or know of anyone who is, you know what to do, right? Make sure you do that. :D

Signing off now, and wishing all daddies again a very Happy, (if a little belated) Father's Day.